Pilgrim Baptist Church
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1121 Dr M R Lemon Boulevard in East St. Louis, IL 62207. It is one of 21 churches in East St. Louis, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
1121 Dr M R Lemon Boulevard, East St. Louis, IL, 62207Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Pilgrim Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 100.0%
- Obesity: 52.7%
- Food Insecurity: 45.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.3% (17.4–51.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (0.7–14.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Mount Paran Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Truelight Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Illinois Southeast Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction — 0.3 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Shiloh AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Liberty Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Christ Is the Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away